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They were just super wealthy, but offshored their profits & basically paid less in taxes than your average endorian ewok living on a tax exempt planet.
After the end of Alderaan other economies were freed from it's influence & prospered.
And the leaders were like super posh, like you wouldn't believe how annoying.
And the battle stations arent wasteful, at least not if terrorists would stop blowing them up.
The Emperor could easily close those tax loopholes if he wanted to, but that might hurt his rich friends.
The Death Star was a huge waste, and the military knew it. You could tell by how Grand Admiral Thrawn dodged the question when a reporter asked him about it, and then had the reporter imprisoned. He knew full well those credits could have paid for at least 2 full Imperial Battle Fleets.
Were they not closed?
Thrawn has daddy issues & just likes to be choked, it's a known "secret", and it's kinda super weird.
Not to mention how he kept his position when the full blueprints were published on War Thunder forums.
(Some of the constriction crew literally used the forum blueprints to built it.)